West-Coast Puppet APB Issued

Have you seen Tears of Joy Theatre's stolen puppets? According to an alert reposted at the the SF Bay Area Puppeteers' Guild, someone made off with the Japanese-style bunraku characters sometime over the last few weeks. It's a pretty devastating loss for the artists.

The theft happened in Oregon, but there's no Portlandist so we're just going to have to post it here and try to get the word out. Tell your friends to be on the lookout for a group of 2-to-3-foot-tall puppets with paper mache heads and wooden hands. Let no stone between here and Seattle be unturned!

Disclosure: SFist_Matt is the SFBAPG's webmaster.